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Taboo is a British drama television miniseries created by Steven Knight, Tom Hardy, and his father Edward "Chips" Hardy. The eight-episode miniseries is about an adventurer who returns to Britain from Africa along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father. The miniseries, created from a story by the Hardys and starring Tom, premiered on 7 January, 2017 on BBC One in the United Kingdom and will premiere on 10 January, 2017 on FX in the United States.
A major eight-episode drama series starring Tom Hardy. The show is executive produced by Hardy alongside Ridley Scott and Steven Knight, who created the drama. 1814. James Delaney reappears in London, a changed and haunted man, presumed dead in Africa many years before. His return finds his father, Horace Delaney, dead and a country at war with France and the United States.Set to inherit what’s left of his father’s shipping empire, James’ arrival not only threatens to disrupt the plans of his half‐sister Zilpha and her husband Thorne, but also the political ambitions of the mighty East India Company, chaired by Sir Stuart Strange.James Delaney is played by Tom Hardy, Zilpha Geary by Oona Chaplin, Thorne Geary by Jefferson Hall, and Sir Stuart Strange by Jonathan Pryce.
I really liked episode 1. Good actors, costumes, the settings and scenery. Mysterious.
When we inevitably get a flashback of Horace Delaney purchasing Nootka Sound, it had damn well better be Sean Bean
Two episodes in and I'm TOTALLY hooked.
He co-wrote, produced and starred in the gritty new BBC One drama Taboo about a revenge-driven adventurer.So it will no doubt come as a blow to Tom Hardy that he has reportedly lost a whopping £2million in making the dark eight-part series.The Hollywood megastar, 39, allegedly suffered the major loss after Taboo drew in £8.4million - which has not matched the £10.4million the show racked up to make.The insider added: 'Tom will hope to eventually make the money back through DVD sales, downloads, streaming and syndication rights.'The reported loss comes despite Tom setting up a firm Taboo Productions Ltd to manage the finances for the costly drama. Hardy created Taboo with his writer father Edward 'Chips' Hardy, and it is being screened seven years after they came up with the idea.Currently in its third week, the hit mini-series has been pulling in seven million viewers.Taboo, which premièred on 10th January 2017, tells the tale of adventurer James Keziah Delaney - who builds his own shipping empire in the early 1800s.The short series is based on a story written by Tom and his father, and follows the journey of Delaney- played by Tom, returning to London having lived in Africa for ten years.Tom has stripped off for several scenes in the series, and has also been seen in promotional shots in nothing but a loin cloth wading through a swamp.Speaking of the more full-frontal and adult side to the dark drama with BBC Newsbeat, Tom said he wished there had been more opportunities to get his naked body in the final cut.'You're lucky there was a loin cloth because I didn't want one,' said Tom of the much-hyped snippet of him wading through the swamp.He continued: 'It's not a period drama until someone gets naked and covers themselves in blood. At least you're showing willing.'I was in Tilbury, in the moat, in the docks, with nothing on. We were trying to eke out drama from any opportunity and none of that makes the cut.
You're lucky there was a loin cloth because I didn't want one,' said Tom of the much-hyped snippet of him wading through the swamp.
